Chapter 19
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The little women who wrote the book that made this great war" (Civil War)
John Brown
Fanatical and bloody minded abolitionists martyr admired in the North ad hated in the South
Jefferson Davis
Former US senator who, in 1861, became the president of what called itself a new nation
True
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle tom's Cabin proved to be the most influential publication in arousing the northern and European publics against the evils of slavery
False
Hinton Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South stirred slaveholders' wrath by predicting that the slaves would eventually rise up in violent revolt
False
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's criticism forced Douglas to back away from his support for popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery question in the West
Stephen A. Douglas
Leading northern Democrat whose presidential hopes fell victim to the conflict over slavery
False
Lincoln made a strong effort to get the South to accept the Crittenden Compromise in order to avoid the civil war
False
Northern Democrats walked out of the Democratic party convention in 1860 when the southerners nominated Vice President John Breckenridge for president
Henry Ward Beecher
Preacher-abolitionist who funded weapons for antislavery pioneers in Kansas
False
Prosouthern Kansas pioneers brought numerous slaves with them in order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state
John C. Fremont
Romantic western hero and the first republican candidate for president
False
Senator Stephen Douglas's support for the proslavery Lecompton Constitution demonstrated that the Democratic party was completely beholden to its southern wing
True
Seven states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America during the "lame-duck" period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration
Preston Brooks
Southern congressman whose bloody attack on a northern senator fueled sectional hatred
Hinton R. Helper
Southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion
False
The Dred Scott decision upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty that the people of each territory should determine whether or not to permit slavery
True
The South was enraged by many northerners' celebration of John Brown as a martyr
True
The election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln versus Douglas in the North and Bell versus Breckenridge in the South
False
The overwhelming support for Lincoln in the North gave him a majority of the total popular vote despite winning almost no votes in the South
True
The violence in Kansas was provoked by both racial abolitionists and militant proslavery forces who sought to control the territory
James Buchanan
Weak Democratic president whose manipulation by proslavery forces divided his own party
Dred Scott
Black slave whose unsuccessful attempt to win his freedom deepened the sectional controversy
John C. Breckenridge
Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860
Charles Sumner
Abolitionists senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him
True
After Congressman Preston Brooks nearly bent Senator Charles sumner to death on the Senate floor, South Carolina reflected Brooks and Massachusetts reelected Sumner
True
Although Republican John C. Fremont lost the presidency to Democrat James Buchanan, the election of 1856 demonstrated the growing power of the new antislavery party